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> (3) Compute a checksum of the current /etc/lftp.conf, and compare it to the > checksum of the old default. If they're the same, then the user hasn't > touched the old default so copy the new default in. If they're different, > then prompt the user as in (2). So we need to store checksums of default > config files somewhere. This is Debian's method. Again if this is the > preferred method, then someone should develop a standard method to handle > it.
Debian has a package called ucf which provides this kind of service to maintainer scripts. I imagine we could adopt it too, if we wanted.
Max.
Hmm. Gentoo's etc-update script is a pretty straightforward tool that handles "trivial changes" and allows users to run diff interactively on their proposed new scripts. Perhaps a tool *like* this would be appropriate for Cygwin?
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